Costs And Consequences Of The Federal Estate Tax
A Joint Economic Committee Study, May 2006

New International Survey Shows U.S. Death Tax Rates Among Highest
American Council For Capital Formation, July 2005 

Death tax squeezes smaller companies
The Seattle Times, May 2005 

What women need to know about the death tax
Self-Reliance For Women, Issue 12, 2005 

Estate Taxes Poll Shows 85 Percent of Voters Favor Eliminating, Reducing Estate Tax
BNA Tax Report, March 2005 

Turn off the spigot
SENS. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell would benefit their state and their party by supporting repeal of the federal death tax.
Seattle Times, March 2005 

Poll Shows Death Tax “Among the Most Hated Avenues for Government Revenue Today”
Opposition Grows Among All Ages, Both Sexes and Every Income Group
Global Strategies/Luntz Research Teleconference, March 2005 

Americans Talk Taxes
Global Strategies/Luntz Research, February 2005  

Cutting a tax deal
Seattle Times, November 2004 

Of Land and Legacy
Los Angeles Times Magazine, November 2004 

Five-State Executive Interview Study of 100+ Hispanic Family-Owned Businesses on Federal “Death Taxes”
IMPACTO Group LLC, July 2004 

7 of 10 Hispanic Business Owners Want Candidates Who Will End The Death Tax
IMPACTO Group LLC, July 2004 

Survey of Hispanic Business Owners In 5 States
Impacto Group, June 2004

Sharing the Wealth?
By Bob Thompson, washingtonpost.com, April 13, 2004 

Coiner of ‘death tax’ framed the debate.
Frank Luntz, March 2004 

The $46 Billion Dollar Question: How Much Estate Tax Will Bill Gates Pay When He Dies?
Harold I. Apolinsky, Esq., March 2004 

The Effects On Government Revenues From Repealing The Federal Estate Tax And Limiting The Step-Up In Basis For Taxing Capital Gains
CONSAD Research Corporation, July 2003

The Economics of the Estate Tax: An Update (JEC Study)
June 2003 

Accounting for the Rich
Douglas Clement, Federal Reserve Bank, June 2003

Women business owners survey thousands of voters: ‘Don’t tax people on death of parents’
Women Impacting Public Policy, May 6, 2003

National Survey Shows People Want US Senate to Repeal Death Tax
Woman Impacting Public Policy (WIPP), August 2003 

Research Reveals: Family Firms Perform
The Family Business Advisor, March

We Are All Dead In The Long Run: How The Estate Tax Robs Women
Patricia M. Soldano, The Vocal Majority 2002

Gift Tax Repeal: Responding to Opponents' Concerns
By Charles D. Fox IV and Svetlana V. Bekman, September 2001 

Federal Estate and Gift Taxes: Are they Worth the Cost?

September 2000 

A Declaration of Independence from Death Taxation
Edward J. McCaffery and Richard E. Wagner, July 2000. 

Women & the Death Tax - Saving for the Next Generation
Nancy M. Pfotenhauer, Independent Women's Forum, April 2002 

Policy Analysis - “Grave Robbers: The Moral Case Against The Death Tax”
Edward J. McCaffery , The Cato Institute, October 1999 

Survey of the Impact of the Federal Estate Tax on Family Business Employment Levels in upstate New York
Travis Research Associates, Inc., June 1999 

The Economics of the Estate Tax

Joint Economic Committee Study, December 1998

A Tax That Should Offend Liberals

Edward J. McCaffery, the Wall Street Journal, 1997 

Tax Reform:  Qualitative Research (Focus Group Study),

McKinnon Eller & Ranne, 1995

Federal Estate Tax Impact Survey

The Center for the Study of Taxation, 1995 

"An Analysis of the Disincentive Effects of the Estate Tax on Entrepreneurship" Examines the disincentive effect of federal transfer taxes, and provides case studies.
Fleenor, Patrick and J.D. Foster, Ph.D., June 1994 

Family Businesses in the U.S. Economy,

Joseph Astrachan and Melissa Carey, 1994

Federal Transfer Taxation:  A Study in Social Cost
Richard E. Wagner, The Center for the Study of Taxation, 1993

The Hidden Heir: How New York's Estate Taxes Are Swallowing Up Family Businesses and Farms
Public Policy Institute of New York, May 1992